69 A single Management Unit but specific conservation strategies between two major breeding grounds of the critically endangered loggerhead turtle in New Caledonia. Hugo Bourgogne1, 2, Claire D. Bonneville2, Tyffen C. Read3, Olivier Chateau4, Dominique Lafage5, Maxime Barbier5, Marion Bardet5, Solène Derville2, Alizée Frayssinet2 & Marc Oremus1 1 WWF-France bureau Nouvelle-Calédonie, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Nouméa, New Caledonia, France 2 UMR 250 ENTROPIE, Centre IRD de Nouméa, IRD, CNRS, Ifremer, Université de la Réunion, Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, Nouméa, New Caledonia, France 3 Direction du Développement Durable des Territoires, Service PPAT, province Sud de Nouvelle-Calédonie, Nouméa, New Caledonia, France. 4 Laboratory of Marine Biology and Ecology, Aquarium des Lagons, Nouméa, New Caledonia, France 5 Bwärä Tortues Marines, Bourail, New Caledonia, France Acknowledgements We would like to address our gratitude to all the contributors and partners who have participated in this highly collaborative work. We thank the South Province of New Caledonia, for their substantial contribution by providing technical support and administrative authorizations to monitor seasonally all nesting areas. We thank the members and volunteers of the conservation group Bwärä Tortues Marines, Aquarium des Lagons and WWF-France for the major contribution to fieldwork, the considerable, inspiring dedication and for sharing monitoring program data and available biological samples. We thank our colleague Nancy N. FitzSimmons from the Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, for her precious guidance and for sharing knowledge and lab materials. We thank the members of the Plateforme du Vivant from the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) in Nouméa, and Plateforme Gentyane from the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE) in Clermont-Ferrand, for the technical support provided in the molecular analysis and the access to the laboratory facilities. We thank Eric Vidal for his openminded revision of this work and valuable contribution for its improvement. We would like to extend our gratitude to all the traditional authorities in which geographies this study took place. This work has been supported by the French Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation through the ‘Industrial Agreements for Training through Research’ CIFRE scholarship (#2020/1154).
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